Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.